An investigative case-study on an MRI accident in which a shackled prisoner *and* guard both entered the MRI scanner room and got trapped against the MRI scanner...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tobiasgilk_mri-mrisafety-radiology-activity-7059653586749689856-OS9h

#MRI #MRIsafety

MRI accidents are far more frequent than any official tally would suggest. These are photos of accidents that have deen shared with me in just the past several days!
#MRIsafety

Brace yourselves, people, for weird questions on Thursday...

Wednesday evening Chicago Med will be running an episode where a patient gets trapped against an MRI scanner by a gurney (a bit 'on the nose' at the moment).

Hat tip to the Lorenza Clausen who alerted me to this.

https://telltaletv.com/2023/03/preview-chicago-med-season-8-episode-16-what-you-see-isnt-always-what-you-get/

#MRI #mrisafety

Two #MRI accidents several years apart, purportedly occurring in the same room at a hospital.

Question for you: How many ‘inconceivable’ accidents need to occur in the same facility before we recognize it as a pattern?

#MRIsafety #ptsafety #radiology

Beehive mind of the Internet --- if you are a policy maker interested in medical devices and safety --- do get in touch

#policy #medicaldevices #policymaking #MRIsafety

Who in my Mastodon circle works for Kaiser Permanente hospitals in radiology (particularly MRI) and would like to connect with me via D.M. to talk about Redwood City?

#MRI #MRIsafety #Radiology #kaiser #hospital

This happened last week in USA (details corroborated among several sources, but not independently verified by me).

MR tech on-duty, but not in the magnet room when this occurred (purportedly working on a computer).

Nurse and tech-aide brought patient-on-gurney into magnet room.

Patient thrown from the gurney when attracted / struck the MRI (patient relatively unharmed).

Nurse struck by the gurney and reported to have suffered fractured femur and pelvis.

#MRIsafety #MRI

RT @tobiasgilk
Within the last week in US.
MR tech on-duty, not in the magnet room.
MR table was out of the magnet room.
Nurse and tech-aide brought patient-on-gurney into magnet room.
Patient thrown (patient relatively unharmed).
Nurse struck reported fract. femur and pelvis.
#MRIsafety #MRI

RT @JohanSvdBrink: Vanmiddag in Delft bij NEN de IEC 1906 Award voor #MRIsafety mogen ontvangen.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/BasBelderMEP/status/1602422806460993536

I’ll step down from my #MRIsafety soapbox as soon as people stop doing things like this (and much, much worse)…
#MRI #radiology #patientsafety #ptsafety

Three #MRI safety questions I asked during #RSNA on that ‘bird app’.

Do you agree or disagree with your colleagues’ responses?

#MRIsafety

Thank you, Chaundria, for the conversation about #MRIsafety!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1747205/11711655

#MRI #radiology #ptsafety

Several days this week I posted messages on Twitter that all began with a sarcastic message about how #MRI couldn't possibly be unsafe, followed by accounts of accidents in which people were grievously harmed.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22a%20reminder%22%20tobiasgilk&src=typed_query

Anyone interested in #MRI, #radiology, #MRIsafety, and #PatientSafety is invited to check out the series of tweets and the final commentary I posted today (November 11) about the whole exercise.

A reminder that the reason we don't have meaningful MRI safety requirements at the point of care (federal, state, or accreditation) is that MRI doesn't use ionizing radiation and therefore is 1,000% free from harm (</sarcasm>)

#MRI #MRIsafety #ptsafety #radiology

Any #radiology #ptsafety / #patientsafety #biomed #medphys #mri or #MRIsafety people here who want to link up?